Pain Management Grants

Incentive Grants for Serving Patients with Pain Management

Application Deadline: December 15, 2008

The APhA Foundation will award grants in the amount of $1,000 for projects to be initiated to support a pain management practice model in ambulatory care practice settings that improves patient care and treatment. The project may include patient education, screening, wellness and/or support services in an effort to address the spectrum of patient and provider needs when focusing on pain management. These incentive grants provide seed money to help pharmacists initiate a 12-month innovative practice project or to support an already existing project within one’s practice that focuses on serving patients with pain management.

The Incentive Grants program is intended to focus pharmacists’ attention on the need to re-engineer their practices along lines that incorporate more specific patient-centered services and enhance health care delivery with the use of today’s technology. The project proposal should concentrate on a new, innovative patient care service in the area of pain management that is of significance to ambulatory pharmacy care settings and that can be evaluated for its relevance.

The Incentive Grants for serving patients with pain management will look to fund projects that accomplish any or all of the following:

* Identify and improve care of patients who may have been inappropriately managed for referral to physicians (or pain specialists) for complete assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.
* Establish a pain management practice model in ambulatory care practice settings that improves patient care and treatment. The project can include screening, wellness and support services in an effort to address the spectrum of patient and provider needs.
* Innovative strategies that incorporate pain management activities within community pharmacy setting.
* Demonstrate that pain management services/activities enable patients to be more informed, involved, and in control of their health resulting in improved persistence and compliance with therapy.
* Implement community education and awareness programs in partnership with the state pain initiatives or other patient advocacy groups.
* Establish effective monitoring, management and feedback processes within the collaborative treatment of patients in pain and utilize the pharmacist-physician interaction to optimize therapeutic treatment.
* Establish services that provide medication management, patient education support, and/or alleviate misperceptions of patients with pain (especially persistent pain) and their caregivers.

These incentive grants are made possible with support by Purdue Pharma.

While the APhA and APhA Foundation’s headquarter building undergoes a massive renovation and expansion, the current address for the APhA Foundation is:

1100 15th Street, NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005-1707
Telephone: (202) 429-7565
Email: info@aphafoundation.org

The American Medical Directors Association Foundation and Pfizer have partnered to sponsor the Quality Improvement Awards, a program designed to encourage the development of innovative projects that will help to make a distinct impact on the quality of long term care.

Types of Projects Supported

The Awards will support initiatives that focus on facility staff education, quality improvement programs, research on interventions and treatment, and health literacy to directly enhance the quality of care provided to patients in Long Term Care settings.

Proposals may be submitted for a general Quality Improvement project or in any one of the five therapeutic areas listed below. The therapeutic areas are: pain management, dementia, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, or urinary incontinence.

Education

* Proposals in this category should focus on facility staff education and/or training programs.
Due to a current Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grant on assessment of Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) implementation, the Foundation will not fund projects related to implementation of AMDA CPGs.

Quality Improvement Programs

* Proposals should focus on training and mentoring facilities or organizations in continuous quality improvement (CQI) or specific QI projects covering areas of interest to the Foundation.

Research Projects

* Research projects should be approximately one year in length and conducted in a single facility. Results should be generalizable.
* Examples could include an investigation into the characteristics of residents in the long term care setting whose weight loss is unavoidable, or a study looking at critical factors with hearing aid use.

Health Literacy

* Health literacy projects should focus on ways to enhance improving healthcare communications between long term care patients and their family/caregivers/surrogates. Devising such systems are particularly important given the diminished literacy skills, cognitive capacity and communication skills of many long term care residents, especially those with dementia.
* Examples could include projects that focus on the following: innovative ways to communicate given literacy and functional limitations (e.g., cognitive impairment, hearing or vision loss); different strategies for communicating given technological advances (e.g., e-mail, video-conferencing); and, methods of communicating with patients and families surrounding functional and disease-focused issues, taking into consideration diminished literacy skills and cultural differences.

Awards
Awards of $10,000-$15,000 each will be made to three winners in this competition to support their projects. Two awards will support Quality Improvement projects focusing on one of the five therapeutic areas, and the third award will support a General Quality Improvement project. Awards are intended to cover salary support, consultant fees, materials, and travel to the AMDA Annual Symposium to present project results.

Application Procedure

The application deadline is October 31, 2008. The AMDA Foundation/Pfizer QI Application must be completed and submitted online through our online application process. Note that registration is required since this online application involves submitting and uploading documents in electronic form.

AMDA Foundation.
11000 Broken Land Parkway · Suite 405 · Columbia, MD 21044
Phone: 410-992-3134 · Fax: 410-740-1318

The Mayday Fund’s current grant-making targets are:

* projects that result in clinical interventions to reduce the toll of physical pain

* pediatric pain

* pain in non-verbal populations

* pain in the context of emergency medicine

Mayday will also continue to be proactive in its commitment to promote networking between veterinary and human medicine, especially in an effort to inform measurements of pain in non-verbal populations. Finally, the Trustees of the Mayday Fund wish to be nimble enough to respond as special opportunities present themselves.

There are no deadlines. All applications for funding or proposals of other kinds are offered for consideration at the next Trustee's meeting.

Grants are made only to public charities and educational institutions officially recognized as such by the IRS. The Mayday Fund concentrates its activities in the United States. On occasion, grants have been made to Canadian organizations when the project has an effect that reaches beyond Canada. Grants cannot be made to individuals.

For all initial or new contacts please send an email to:
Christina Spellman, Executive Director inquiry@maydayfund.org

Please - mail and phone contacts only after initial email communication. (Note this is an updated address).

The MAYDAY FUND
c/o SPG
136 West 21st Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10011

Harold Wolff-John Graham Award: An Award for Headache/Facial Pain Research
Sponsored by the AAN and supported by GlaxoSmithKline.

This award recognizes individuals who have submitted research results in the field of headache and facial pain. It honors two famous headache researchers and clinicians, who made outstanding contributions to the field of research in headache and inpatient care.

Presentation
Recipient is expected to present a 10-minute lecture during a headache scientific session at the AAN 61st Annual Meeting.

Recipient will receive:

Certificate of recognition and $1,000 prize
Complimenary registration for 61st Annual Meeting
Recognition at 2009 Awards Luncheon at 61st Annual Meeting

Eligibility

Must have carried out research, either clinical, basic science, or multidisciplinary, in the field of headache and facial pain
Application Procedure

Applicants should submit one complete set of the following materials:

Completed application form
Current curriculum vitae

Deadline

The deadline to apply for 2009 AAN Scientific Awards is November 3, 2008. Applications will be available in August 2008.

For more information, please contact Mary Cress at mcress@aan.com or (651) 695-2754.

American Academy of Neurology
1080 Montreal Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55116
Tel: (800) 879-1960 or (651) 695-2717
Fax: (651) 695-2791

International Association for the Study of Pain Early Career Research Grants Program

Grants: 7 grants of US$20,000 each (including 2 funded by ScanDesign by Jens and Inger Bruun Foundation)

Application Deadline: January 30

Purpose:
The IASP Early Career Research Grants support a researcher who is in the early career stage of pain investigations.

Eligibility Requirements:
At the time of application applicants should be:

IASP members
within 6 years of having received their terminal degree.
carrying out independent research.
In addition applicants should not be recipients of a major official grant funding (such as NIH, EEC or APS)
Guidelines:

IASP will award seven grants per year to be used by eligible applicants engaged in independent research.
The IASP Research Committee will make the final decisions on the awards.
The grants are available internationally and are not related to any particular discipline. The committee will give consideration to a balance of all aspects of pain research projects including the clinical, social and basic sciences when considering the awards.
The IASP Committee on Research will evaluate all proposals based on:
a) the scientific merit of the proposed research.
b) the qualifications of the investigator. Only work published in international refereed journals or periodicals will be
considered.
c) the evidence of sound independent research, i.e. the most recent work should not have been done under supervision of a senior scientist, and the intended research will also not be done under supervision of a senior scientist.

Terms of the awards:
a) The awardee will be responsible for managing the funds.
b) The awardee must agree to submit a detailed scientific report within two years and agree to make a presentation of the research at an IASP meeting to be determined.
c) The awardee must acknowledge IASP as the source of funding in any publications arising from work supported by these grants

How to Apply
Application forms are available here or from the IASP office (contact below).

Include with your application:

A description of the research project to be undertaken.
A letter of recommendation including statement of evidence that the candidate has achieved a level of independence as a researcher.
The curriculum vitae of the applicant including a full publication list.
Reprints of up to 5 recent publications from refereed international journals.
Evidence that the costs of the proposed research project are covered with other funds.
Confirmation that the host institution will agree to accept a grant for payment to the awardee and will not charge indirect costs (overhead and handling fees) to IASP.
Any questions? Please contact IASP at iaspdesk@iasp-pain.org or tel.: +1-206-283-0311

The deadline for receipt of applications is January 30. Awards will be announced by March 30.

E-mail your application to: iaspdesk@iasp-pain.org

IASP does not take responsibility for accidents or other legal issues occurring during the period a person is benefiting from an IASP grant.

RESEARCH: REQUESTS FOR GRANT PROPOSALS

The Neuropathy Association encourages and supports research into the causes of and treatments for neuropathy with the goal of one day finding a cure. In support of this mission, we provide annual research grants to promising researchers and projects that support our mission. Final award recipients are selected based on the recommendations of our Research Advisory Council.

Information for Potential Applicants:

Each year, The Neuropathy Association solicits research proposals into the causes of and treatments for peripheral neuropathies. Up to two research grants, each for $ 40,000 per year for two years, are awarded.

In order to receive an application form, please send a letter of intent with a one paragraph description of the proposed project to:

The Neuropathy Association
Attn: Grants Program
60 East 42nd Street, Suite 942
New York, NY 10165

Please contact Natacha T. Pires at 212-692-0665 or npires@neuropathy.org if you have any questions.

The National Headache Foundation (NHF) deadline for accepting research protocols for funding consideration is December 1, 2008.

National Headache Foundation
Attn: Research Grants
820 N. Orleans, Suite 217
Chicago, Illinois 60610-3132

The projects will be evaluated by the Research and Medical Information Committee early in 2009 and grant recipients will be notified soon after.

RESEARCH GRANT SUBMISSIONS

RESEARCH POLICY

The National Headache Foundation (NHF) supports research in the field of headache and pain as a part of our mission, which also includes offering education and information to headache sufferers.

The National Headache Foundation is interested in research protocols that are objectively sound and whose results can, when published in the medical literature, contribute to the better understanding and treatment of headache and pain. Grants from the NHF will not cover costs including overhead, salaries (payment for technicians, others collecting data, administrative services, etc.), purchasing of equipment, rent or other indirect expenses.

Grants may be used for the purchasing of supplies needed for the study (chemical or pharmacological reagents, laboratory animals, tissue culture materials. forms, etc) and for costs related to the recruiting of patients, data analysis, interpreting or reading results, etc

The projects will be evaluated by the Research and Medical Information Committee early in 2009 and grant recipients will be notified by March 1. If you would like a copy of the grant application, visit our Web site at www.headaches.org or call 1-888-NHF-5552 to request a printed copy. Questions should be directed to Carolyn Smith, Executive Assistant, at 312-274-2652.